Purely Commentary

Separation. . • President's Day of Prayer
Say all you wish about the separation principle and the First
Amendment, about keeping Church and State apart. The fact is that
the majority in our midst probably views the American people as a
Christian nation.
Unlike John Kennedy, who was challenged because of his Cath-
olicism, Lyndon Johnson has not been put to the test on a religious
issue. But when he saw fit to proclaim a Day of Prayer for peace in
our communities and for abandonment of race conflicts, he designated
churches and Sunday.
Was it an oversight: Did LBJ forget the five-and-a-half million
American Jews, the Christians who are Seventh Day Adventists who
observe Saturday as their Sabbath and the main day of prayer and
the millions of others who pray but not as Christians and on Sundays?
This may or may not be related to the delusion called separation.
It may have been just an oversight on the part of the President. Yet
it alludes to facts that are often ignored regarding inter-faith preach-
ments as contrasted with practices.
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Middle East Cauldron's Billions: Guilt is Multiplying
The billions that have been poured into the Middle East's cauldron
do not speak well either for the United States or for Russia. The arms
race is responsible for the trouble that has been brewing, for the
arrogance that has developed among Arabs.
Israeli spokesmen at the UN Pleaded for years for an end to the
arms build-ups as one means of assuring peace in the Middle East. Their
pleadings fell on deaf ears.
Great Britain shares guilt for what had happened. In the British
House of Commons it was reported that the following loans and grants
had been given (luring the last 10 years:
By far the largest amount went to Jordan, £25,765,000. Then
came Egypt with £3,632,000: Syria, £225,000; Iraq, £72,000; Leb-
anon, £61,000; and Saudi Arabia, £1,000. Israel's share was £2,000.
These figures multiply the guilt among the great powers. If loans
and grants had been allocated for the elevation of the standard of the
Arab peoples—to aid them in improving their health and education and
in huilding up wholesome industries rather than war machines—the
situation would have been different. But the great powers are repeating
their mi.stakes everywhere. Instead of giving aid to improve the condi-
tions of underdeveloped nations they are building up their war machines.
That is why we live in a world so filled with despair, agony, uncer-
tainty. fear. That is in large measure the reason why our youth are
so unsettled and in a state of mental turmoil. Vietnam is a sample.

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Cyprus: New Center of Anti - lsraelism
At one point in the tragic history of dissension in the Middle
East, Christians who desired to go to the Holy Places in what was

Cyprus as Center of Anti-Israel
Propaganda ... Blueprint for M.E.
Coexistence in Cauldron of Agony

the Old City of Jerusalem had to go to Cyprus first, then to the
Jordanian sector, and from there they had absolute freedom to
enter Israel through the ridiculous Mandelbaum Gate. Now this
transfer point has become obsolete. Just as all peoples from all lands
and all faiths had the freedom to travel to Israel without interference
or scrutiny of passports, so they now can travel within Israel to all
the sacred points for all faiths.
It was under King Hussein who is ridiculously glorified as the
wonderful monarch that there were those restrictions. It's about
time that the myth of glory around the foolish little king were ex-
ploded. He is a small man, perhaps with good intentions but is
laboring under dictation from his fellow-Arabpotentates. And his
actions were not good! He was and remains a war-monger.
This is an aside — influenced by the urgent need to expose the
nonsense about the great little king.
The important point under consideration at this time is Cyprus.
In the Christian Science Monitor (July 12), John K. Cooley wrote,
under a Nicosia, Cyprus, dateline, regarding current attitudes here
vis-a-vis Israel and the Arabs. He commented on the anger over Israel's
refusal to have UNEF troops on her border—a matter of testing Israel's
sovereignty and of ignoring Israel's right to bar foreign troops from her
shores; ignoring on this score the basic fact that Israel was defending
herself while the enemy neighbor was threatening destruction and dis-
aster, and UN troops therefore belonged where they were!
The Cooley article is especially vital because it reveals an attitude
on the part of the Cypriotes' leaders that should be generally known.
Israel was represented in large numbers by vacationists in Cyprus, and
those who still plan such trips should know where they go: should
realize that the government of Cyprus entertains animosity for Israel,
and therefore for Israelis.
Cooley stated in his report from Nicosia:
The recent Middle East war has drawn Cyprus more strongly
into the Arab-Israeli quarrel.
It has also directed attention to Cyprus as a possible future
base of United Nations presence in the Middle East.
President Makarios had a well-publicized telephone conversa-
tion with United Arab Republic President Nasser near the start of
the six-day Arab-Israeli war.
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He also issued a strong statement condemning Israeli "aggres-
sion." This earned Cyprus gratitude from the Arab states. But it
threatens seriously to affect its trade and tourist relations with
Israel.
Israeli tourists used to flock by the thousands to Cyprus. Their
spending brought in several hundred thousand dollars a year.
Cyprus-Israel trade in both directions was worth about $2,000,000.
Cyprus has little trade with its Arab neighbors.
After Archbishop Makarios' statement on the Arab-Israeli
crisis, a Cyprus Airways plane and its passengers landing in Tel
Aviv were hissed and booed by Israelis.
Israeli tourists, as hotel and resort owners here have noted,
suddenly stopped coming. Some of President Makarios' aides ques-
tioned the wisdom of his strong commitment to President Nasser.
Since Israeli troops entered Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, more
light has been shed on military phases of Cyprus-United Arab Re-
public cooperation.
It was disclosed that Cypriote rocket and missile technicians
of the Greek Cypriot National Guard were being trained at one
United Arab Republic Sinai missile base.
Soviet SAM.H antiaircraft missiles and other equipment once
meant for Cyprus ended up in Sinai instead. The SAMs had been
diverted before ever reaching Cyprus in 1964 and 1965. Other Rus-
sian equipment arrived on the island and was then quietly trans-
shipped to Egypt.
Israelis undoubtedly will know how to deal with menacing
countries in the Mediterranean. They have Eilat and Caesarea and
Safed to vacation in. Why Cyprus, if it is ruled by enemies?

Blueprint — for Workable Arab - Jewish Coexistence
An editorial (Middle East Blueprint) in the New Republic, sums
up the crux of the Middle East problem. The editorial reviewed the
existing complications and asserted:

"If wiser counsels prevail in Moscow and if Arab
extremists do not get encouragement from abroad (China
is too poor to do much more than shout), Israel may suc-
ceed in its ambitious effort to solve the problem of Arab
refugees and establish a workable Arab-Jewish coexist-
ence inside the borders controlled by Israel. This will
be achieved not by debate at the UN, or by draft resolu-
tions which are either defeated or, if passed, are ignored.
The only hope that the Middle East will cease to mon-

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By Philip
Slomovitz

opolize the headlines lies in
a slow adjustment to reality
by all the Middle East nations,
including Israel. The best
blueprint now is as little blue-
print as possible."

There is widespread agreement
that if not for UN interference
Arabs might already have been
sitting with Israel at a peace table.
But the UN in part spells USSR
and that's where most of the trou-
ble comes in. Left alone, without
the power politics, we could see
rays of hope for peace.
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Pocketbook's Role

in the Race Issue
Los Angeles correspondent Rob-
ert J. Donovan quoted a Detroit
Negro woman , referred to as Jane
Smith, who was educated on De-
troit's West Side and is introduced
as knowing "the angles" about the
occurrences here last week, as say-
ing:

"The people didn't think they
were burning their own homes
down. They thought about getting
at the white man, at the Jews who
own these stores. And they did get
at the Jews—they hit them in their
pocketbook."

This is when the anti-Semitic
spirit emerges in its true light.
The riots here were not a racial
revolution and we wanted to be-
lieve they were not anti-Semitic.
But here you have Jane's opinion.
And it seemed to have been given
with a vengeance: always, when
the haters refer to the Jew's
pocketbook, there is that jealousy
that spells anti-SemiSism. That's
how it was with Britain's Bevin,
with some British officials in pre-
Israel Palestine, and with lots of
the lunatic fringe on all fronts.
Talk about justice and civil
rights: the pocketbook also has its
role in our nation's tragedy.

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Avoid Compensating
Crime and Arson

Extremists in Negro ranks have
begun to threaten with even great-
er vigor, as was evidenced in
Washington and in Havana last
week. This is a most deplorable
element in the present effort to
correct the wrongs of the last 300
years.

Injustice must be corrected and
in many instances atoned for.

But crime—arson, looting, threat
of violence—must not be elevated
unto their being compensated for.

Justice must be enforced, but
crime must be punished, else the
inspiration will be for more vio-
lence. That would be the worst
that could happen to the very "soul
brothers" who need to have faith
restored among fellow citizens.

The New Pro-Arab Trend and the Basic Facts Regarding Jerusalem and Fair Play in Israel

JUST AFTER ME SuAACADEA A TERRIIICD JEWISH GIRL FLEES DOWN A BURNING STREET

ARABS SACK THE HOLY CITY

Abdullah's conquering Legion tries to keep order but fails

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Irruts Here magnanimous and his Arab Legion well disciplined. but neither

their ruagn.unnul!, on, discipline could sate the old Jewish Quarter from its
fate. Sr arms of Pale-4 inian Irregulars and hangers•on burst in and redured it to
smoking ruin soon after the beaten Jews gas r en. Sell-important Moslem cen-
t..•v., not only in Palestine but in neighboring Arab countries which have major

communication. outlets, tried for a fortnight to keep the news from leaking out.
Photographer John Phillips
But lam week ihe.e uncensored pictures by
.reachad New York and told the story.
There was terror in the old city and a frantic rush to grab prized powseminan
a• women, children and the aged were herded aerofoil the lima. Them, whit all
the pomp of earlier conqueror.. Xing Abdullah made his triumphal tour. By
the time the cheering of the Arab died down, the U.N. had finis* contrived
a four-week truce—but it rested nosily on • land sesthntg with bitterness,.

2—Fritloy, August 4, 1967

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Israel's triumph inspired admiration for the people who fought valiantly to protect
their lives and to avert another genocidal threat. In the aftermath of the period of adora-
tion, there is a new pro-Arab trend, many accusations are being leveled at Israel, Jeru-
salem's unification is being used as a means of propagating the new hatreds and suspicions.

The fact is, in relation to Jerusalem, that Israel's armies suffered heavy losses in
the approach to the Old City, in order to make certain that Holy Places would not be
harmed. Israel is providing for total religious freedom in the reunited Jerusalem. All re-

ligious denominations now have free approaches to their shrines.
This was not the case under the Jordanians. Jews were denied the right to worship
at the only remaining Western Wall of the Temple Solomon. Many synagogues were de-
stroyed. Jewish cemeteries were defiled. And it is a matter of record that when Jordan
acquired control over the Old City of Jerusalem the Holy City was burned and looted. The
evidence will be found in many historical records and in all newspapers of that period as
the reproduction on the left from Page 36 of the June 28, 1948, issue of Life Magazine
indicates.

A typical example of prejudice and misrepresentation of truth was inserted in an advertisement
about Jerusalem that was subtitled "Arab Reverence for Holy Places Insured Safety for 1300 Years. •
We challenge that statement on the basis of many experiences, especially those of the past 19 years,
and also insofar as the alleged facts in that ad are concerned. All the items quoted are either exaggera-
tions or misrepresentations. One item alludes to a partial truth: it reads: "On July 5, 1954, Patriarch
Timeteus protested against Israeli attacks on Christian holy places." That was the time when ultra-
Orthodox in Israel protested against missionary activities. But there were no attacks as such, in the
sense of the Jordanian "sacking" illustrated on the left, and the discriminations which barred Jews from
all their synagogues in the Old City and from the sacred city itself.

